File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. This means
that you can create and modify archives; view the content of an archive;
view and modify a file contained in the archive; extract files from the
archive.
Gnome-autoar provides functions, widgets, and gschemas for GNOME applications
which want to use archives as a convient method to tranfer directories over
the internet.
Arqiver is a simple Qt5 archive manager as a front-end for libarchive
(bsdtar), gzip and 7z.
Packaged in pkgsrc-wip by pin, as part of a broader effort toward
providing all of LXQt and associated utility applications. General
reviews, feedback, and testing of such by gdt@, ng0@, and myself.
Bz2file is a Python library for reading and writing bzip2-compressed files. It
contains a drop-in replacement for the file interface in the standard library's
bz2 module, including features from the latest development version of CPython
that are not available in older releases.
atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar,
tar+gzip, zip, etc.). It provides the following commands:
* aunpack: extract an archive, avoiding tar bombs
* apack: create archives or compressed files
* als: list the contents of an archive
* acat: extract to the standard output
* adiff: generate a diff between two archives
* arepack: repack archives to a different format
Optional dependencies: lbzip2 or pbzip2, lzip, plzip, lzop, lzma, zip,
unzip, unrar, lha, unace, arj, arc, nomarch, p7zip, unalz.
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data
using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding
and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best
currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed
with deflate but offers more dense compression.
